PESTS
GARDEN PESTS IN NEW ZEALAND AND HOW TO CONTROL THEM. By David Miller, Ph.D., M.Sc., etc. Cawthron Institute. Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd. T is a melancholy thought that already in New Zealand one of the surest paths to scientific distinction is research into the life-history of pests. This is a second edition (revised and enlarged) of a book written 20 years ago, and even more important to-day than it was then. Dr. Miller has taken great trouble to present his facts in language that an intelligent gardener can read and understand, but he has not allowed himself to be "popular" enough to be confusing. A mite is a mite, but if it is a brown mite
it is Bryobia praetiosa in brackets, and if is the European red mite it is also Paratetranychus pilosus. To most of his chapters the author adds a reference list, and he begins with a general review of the animal kingdom which alone is worth the cost of the whole book. The illus-: trations are so clear that to be confused by them would not perhaps be impossible, but it would at least call for some persistence in seeing things the wrong way.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 344, 25 January 1946, Page 16
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198PESTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 344, 25 January 1946, Page 16
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